Steffani Jemison

Born in 1981 at Berkeley, California. Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Steffani Jemison uses movement and language as tools for material and spiritual research, operating in the seam between conceptual and embodied knowledge.

Steffani Jemison uses movement and language as tools for material and spiritual research, operating in the seam between conceptual and embodied knowledge. 

Her work is often rooted in the contents of the archive and encompasses a variety of media, including video, sculpture, drawing, and live performance. 

In her work Jemison addresses African-American culture and vernacular as well as the tensions between the private, social, and political spheres through a variety of means, examining the structures and testing the limits of narrative storytelling and linear time. 

Jemison’s interdisciplinary practice explores themes of possibility, perspective, proximity, and understanding, in an ongoing body of work anchored in insights that cross boundaries of time and space. 

Steffani Jemison has taken part in numerous solo and group shows at Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Genève, CH (2024); Greene Naftali, New York, US (2024; 2021); Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, NE (2022; 2020); Madragoa, Lisbon, PT (2021); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NE (2019); De Appel, Amsterdam, NE (2019); Jeu de Paume, Paris, FR (2017); CAPC, Bordeaux, FR (2017); MASS MoCA, North Adams, US (2017); Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK (2017); RISD Museum, Providence, US (2015); The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US (2015); Whitney Biennial, New York, US (2019); and Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, US (2019–2020), among others. 

Solo screening programs include Art of the Real at Lincoln Center, New York, US (2018) and Conversations at the Edge at the Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, US (2018).

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